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Common People Lyrics

Artist: Pulp
Album: Different Class

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,that's where I,caught her eye.She told me that her Dad was loaded,I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."She said "Fine."and in thirty seconds time she said,

"I want to live like common people,I want to do whatever common people do,I want to sleep with common people,I want to sleep with common people,like you."

Well what else could I do -I said "I'll see what I can do."I took her to a supermarket,I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,so it started there.I said pretend you've got no money,she just laughed and said,"Oh you're so funny."I said "yeah?Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.Are you sure you want to live like common people,you want to see whatever common people see,you want to sleep with common people,you want to sleep with common people,like me."But she didn't understand,she just smiled and held my hand.Rent a flat above a shop,cut your hair and get a job.Smoke some fags and play some pool,pretend you never went to school.But still you'll never get it right,cos when you're laid in bed at night,watching roaches climb the wall,if you call your Dad he could stop it all.

You'll never live like common people,you'll never do what common people do,you'll never fail like common people,you'll never watch your life slide out of view,and dance and drink and screw,because there's nothing else to do.

Sing along with the common people,sing along and it might just get you through,laugh along with the common people,laugh along even though they're laughing at you,and the stupid things that you do.Because you think that poor is cool.

I want to live with common people,I want to live with common people etc...

Comments/Interpretations

by joe kincaid on 5/26/2008 4:40pmgreatest song ever lol

by Aimar1908-2008 on 5/27/2008 4:18pmawaysome

by 321 on 5/28/2008 11:57amthis is not a full text!

by CLAUDIA on 5/28/2008 1:06pmI JUST FUCKING ADORE PULP. HEART ME LONG TIME.

by juanKa on 6/2/2008 11:20pmPOESIA PURA

by JON on 6/3/2008 8:47amthe best song of Pulp

by greg on 6/3/2008 11:40amIt's missing the verse that begins "Like a dog lying in the corner..."

by Carlo on 6/5/2008 3:20pmIt is a great song. especially the version with William Shatner speaking the lines - it is great - I can just imagine his character from Boston Legal (Denny Crane) doing it.

by Logan on 6/10/2008 9:33pmShatner's version was better.

by sofi on 6/14/2008 4:14pmLOS AMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

by qwerty on 6/26/2008 8:49am"She told me that her Dad was loaded" ?can anyone explain who is "Dad" here?

by nutter on 6/28/2008 3:17pm"dad" is her father"loaded" means he has loads of money

by eric on 7/5/2008 12:04amthis would make a really good punk song. picture it with a quicker tempo and more angry and imagine the pistols playing it.still great as it is though.

by qwerty to nutter on 7/31/2008 9:17amthanks amigo

by oranjadee on 8/5/2008 6:24amWilliam Shatners version is 10 times better haha!

Theres a verse missing :(

by BG on 8/15/2008 4:00pm"Shatner's version was better."

It, amazingly, was... Live long and prosper!

by Z on 8/19/2008 8:21amWoot Shatner

by JIMMYbutFEMALE on 8/20/2008 12:17pmmy favorite song of all time. seriously amazing.

...verse missing though?

by May on 10/20/2008 9:54amAmazing song. Catchy tune and amazing lyrics. Best lyrics ever. It's 100% true. None of it is exaggerated at all, and it's a very impacting song.

by GlitterGlam on 10/20/2008 8:05pmVery underated song!

There is an MIA lyric though. :(

by Wanda Banks on 10/27/2008 1:22pmOh, Ye. Glad you Like THe Song. My Aunty Is THe KeyBoard Player. So I Know The Band. I Agree, Awesome Song x

by Jusenka on 10/31/2008 1:18pmLOVE IT!

by piet paulusma on 11/3/2008 12:04pmI am missing a lot of couplets at the end...

by Anonymous on 11/10/2008 7:52pm"She just smiled and held my hand"thats like a whole different world right there. best part of the song.

by Bee. on 11/25/2008 3:45pmMmhmm, Pulpp, me love long time. (y)x

by katie on 11/28/2008 4:03amyeah i agree. that verse isssssss bootiful

by a chap on 12/4/2008 12:48pmamazing, so true, love it!

by jasmine on 12/5/2008 11:06ambeleive it or not i for a fact know the girl (woman now) that this song was written for. and i have absolutely no reason to make it up. shes living in greece now with her family. its amazing the things he wrote about her.

by yeah on 12/30/2008 12:00pmI met jarvis in chile, a really few people knows them there. He's really nice...and smokes marlboro.

by helly :-* on 1/2/2009 8:43amthis song is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by me on 1/5/2009 11:23amwhat was the missing verse?

by Lorenzo on 1/13/2009 6:52amGreat Song! and so true! Pulp number one!

by Common Person on 1/20/2009 12:23amBest Song Ever!!! Here are the missing verses:

Like a dog lying in a corner,they'll bite you and never warn you.Look out.They'll tear your insides out.

'Cause Everybody hates a tourist,especially one who thinksit's all such a laugh.Yeah, and the chip stains' greasewill come out in the bath.You will never understandhow it feels to live your lifewith no meaning or controland with nowhere left to go.You're amazed that they existand they burn so bright,while you can only wonder why.

by that girl over there on 1/24/2009 12:05pmi have been told to use these lyrics 4 gcse composition and i am not because it is too ... bad

by rodrigo on 1/31/2009 5:11pmwhhoooooooww!

by rodrigo on 1/31/2009 5:11pmincreible tema!!!

by greendevil on 2/23/2009 11:52ambest-song-ever!

by Am on 2/23/2009 4:23pmThis song says so much, all the mockneys in shorditch need to hear this song... becasue they "think that poor is cool"

by Rhodowolfr on 3/6/2009 2:24amYes I love the lyrics and the rythm of this Pulp song. It points on the vain looking for the "Common people" all tourists seek - everywhere.

by xmm on 3/7/2009 9:18amheard it first in 1995, and 14 years on, it still rocks!

by sharona on 3/20/2009 12:33pmwoooowwww ...this song always makes me feel better, dunno actually why, but i love it :)

by Sadhbh on 4/9/2009 5:38amI love this song makes me fell so happy and cosy inside when i havnt listened to it in a while!

by SO FUCKING TRUE. on 4/11/2009 12:39pmRich girls love to fuck me cause i'm poor. They think it's cool... let them think that as long as i enjoy...

by Capt. Scrummy on 4/17/2009 8:49amI wanna live like Hindi people.

"Comb your hair and be polite Do your homework every nightDon't smoke fags and don't play poolDo extremely well at schoolTake a medical degreeGraduate at 33Move back in with mom and dadEven though they drive you raving madYou sure... You wanna live like Hindi People"

by nadia on 4/18/2009 10:06amI really love this song. x

by Seany boy on 4/21/2009 8:00amits possibly the greatest britpop song of all time pulp were always awesme but this song just sums it all upi mean whenever i hear it it makes get up and sing :) x

by dara on 4/28/2009 4:10amthis song reminds me of when i got locked and fell asleap in the dugout!!!

by arkhady on 5/6/2009 4:17pmWaoaw what a lots of memories !!!

by Rob on 6/3/2009 12:19pmThis song is so incredibly fucking awesome i love it

by Pulp fan on 6/21/2009 4:04amThe song is well cool i love the second missing verse and the bits in capital letters are my faves

CAUSE EVERYBODY HATES A TOURIST EPCIALLY ONE THAT THINKS ITS ALL A LAUGH (etc in lower case)

by Angirasa on 12/10/2009 1:59amIncorrect and incomplete! so many comments stating the same, does'nt anyone notice? heh!

by Stan on 1/26/2010 5:39pmGoerge Orwell got it spot on in "1984" and Jarvis set it to music.

by captpike714@gmail.com on 2/9/2010 3:10pmSince when are the Greek people,Pretentious art fart,rich kids slumming it? Greeks are poor hard working people, Who grew up as peasants like me.Its' a great song none the less,But Mr. "Shats" versions much better. Dont come to NYC, because , I'll make you eat the first sentence on stage.You too cool shabby chic poser !

by lee on 2/20/2010 8:16am@ captpike714:Well, in the nineties, only rich Greek people could afford to send their children abroad for studying. It has a point. Nowadays anyone can go study abroad.

Regardless of the nationality, there are a lot of young people today with parent's money who want to rebel from all that well being, but in the end embrace all of that hard cash.

I think this song satires it in a very poetic way. Love it!

by vongrimm on 2/20/2010 7:36pmwilliam shatners version is complete fucking rubbish.

by scarlett on 3/4/2010 10:18amjarvis went to my school.im poor poor poor n when things get realy bad financially i love just to forget everything av a drink wiv mi mates n family n blast this song. dont know why but it makes me feel better. think its realy uplifting. its saying depressing stuff but its a n uplifting song, think thats hard to achieve but wey hey he has.

by Still Gives Me the Chills on 3/5/2010 11:00amI'm not a big fan of Pulp's other material or Jarvis's solo stuff, but THIS SONG IS PURE GENIUS!!!! Listened to it this AM on the way to work. I remember one time years ago listening to this song in my car and crying. It summed up my life pretty well at the time.

by polar peak on 7/19/2010 4:55amGrupiepa, he's really not saying common people are blessed at all. He's saying poor people have it really, really hard, and rich people can be ignorant.

St Martins is still very much like this, polarised between rich idlers who want to work vaguely in fashion or somesuch, and people working night jobs to fund their study.

Overseas students in england have to pay way more than brits, europes about 4 times the fees, outside europe is something like 10 times as much iirc.

by Janice Dean on 7/31/2010 12:54pmThis says more about class in England than a million words of academic sociological analysis.As a socialist and a product of the Britpop era, I want this played at my funeral!

by Benny Boy on 8/3/2010 7:18amGenius. This song nails it. If you look for a song with balls, more than just pop, this must be in the top ten of all time.

by andrei d. on 8/27/2010 4:33pmGreat , bitter , sour , but true life.There always will be great British music with social message!

by lashanda on 12/18/2010 6:37amhi m8 you are the best ever

by Fin on 1/21/2011 4:27pmWhat an awesome song!Long live Jarvis!Long live Pulp!This is a classic :)

by uwiefloat on 3/26/2011 10:17ami think that better song's...Bcoz' not a lot of girl's who want to live with poor condition or live with comment people.... The poor it's cool that's the point of this song's....

by Sophia on 3/27/2011 5:25pmGreat song. Music and lyrics.Thats to say that in the nineties the Greek dads were still loaded and could send their precious daughters at St Martin's college or at any posh college, which is opposite to nowadays, where Greece is the last in the rank and families struggle to cope. The good times have passed fast, Greeks are now the cool poor, and only coz they joined the bloody euro.

by Dynamo on 4/3/2011 5:30amWas so happy to see Pulp will be at Leeds Festival 2011, playing to Common People, will be amazing to see them!

by urmom on 4/4/2011 2:07amsorry to piss off the loyal brits, but @eric who said this would make a good punk song, mcr has done a cover - love it!

by Annie on 4/22/2011 7:59pmFirst time I heard this, I cried b/c it took me back to my youth when I was very very poor. I'm not now, but I sure do appreciate what I have, unlike the girl in the song. Truer lyrics were never spoken.

by lost verse on 4/26/2011 7:59amthe "lost verse" ppl are referring to only appears on the album version, this lyrics is for the single version.

by Billy on 5/30/2011 9:43amit doesn't have all the lyrics there!

by Jock Young (The Sociologist!) on 6/9/2011 6:10amWe are playing this in our presentation on Monday!!!!! :) About Left Realism!! :O

I like pies. <3

by Blagger on 6/11/2011 9:58amDiamond song, pure brilliance!

by andi on 6/29/2011 3:54amfirst time i listen to Pulp, and i reallllly love the lyrics! they are good!

by Roger Pedersen on 7/8/2011 2:33pmCommon People and Disco 2000 was the songs that really defined Pulp for me.. They still do to this day.

Great songs, should become a part of the british cultural heritage

by stella_mcr on 7/17/2011 5:55amMy chemical romance cover...*___* ♥

by d45g6 on 8/16/2011 11:45amfak fak damn ugly

by Anonym.. on 9/2/2011 1:54amSomehow bloody Britishers got sumthng good. British accent makes me sick.I wish this was done by some american rock artist.

by Jack on 9/29/2011 2:51pmBut you don't get poor yanks studying at St. Martin's College. Sorry that you can't stand our accent, just be glad that we couldn't be bothered to continue ruling your benighted country and left it to the savages.

by Dbent16 on 10/31/2011 9:22amOh, Jack. Sweet Jack. You need to make yourself some more bears this morning. Now go back to your room and bite your pillow, okay?

by Dave Bartlett on 12/16/2011 10:43amOnly Jarvis Cocker could get away with rhyming 'loaded' with 'coca cola'

by Emily on 4/29/2012 1:37pmlove the story it tells, what a babe of a song.

by Jordi on 4/30/2012 1:31amEscolteu la versio dels Manel!!!!

Please hear "Common pleople" adapted from MANEL .... Great !!!!

by marco on 5/17/2012 8:10amone of best song ever!!!

by wonk on 5/19/2012 1:51amWhat a great song... Ever...

by skol on 5/27/2012 8:22amexcellent lyrics. and sadly so true

by irene on 6/3/2012 2:43pmseriously i dare him to find now in 2012 in greece a girl whose dad is loaded and she studies abroad. good times when this song was made. long gone glory greece.i am greek so spare me one.

by Sten on 6/12/2012 10:40pmThe Shatner version kicks the original's ass, amazingly enough. It has the fierceness and tempo this song needs. Unfortunately the original sounds like it was sung by the very hipsters the song mocks.

by Doofushead on 6/27/2012 1:55pmIrony is the song is written by a Western band, part of a culture where even poor is often far from what suffering some people experience.

Might as well just admit we're all mostly a bunch of spoiled brats.

by voiceofreason on 7/5/2012 8:34amIrony is that comment is written by a Western kid, part of a culture where even poor is often far from what suffering some people experience.

Might as well just admit they're all mostly a bunch of spoiled brats.

by Outraged on 8/29/2012 3:36pmI have nothing against Shatner but I do not get how people can say that his version is better. This is the original and it was sung about Brits by Brits, it has a message in this version rather than just funny for money.

by lynZ way on 10/30/2012 6:32ami like the my chemical romance cover better.

by FMG on 3/18/2013 6:45pmMy Chemical Romance.. are they still around?

by HSC fighter on 4/11/2013 2:55amthanks for the lyrics..its a good song to talk about belonging!